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    The circle of Willis (also called Willis' circle, loop of Willis, cerebral arterial circle, and Willis polygon) is a circulatory anastomosis that supplies...
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    softening and had a normal circle of Willis. The results yielded 52% of normal brains having a normal circle of Willis, while only 33% of brains with cerebral...
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    "Circle of Willis", a circle of arteries on the base of the brain. Willis's anatomy of the brain and nerves, as described in his Cerebri anatome of 1664...
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    Basilar artery (category Arteries of the head and neck)
    blood to the posterior part of the circle of Willis and joins with blood supplied to the anterior part of the circle of Willis from the internal carotid...
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    Willis presented the second and third series of The Circle. She will[when?] be co-hosting Love Is Blind: UK with her husband Matt Willis. Emma Willis...
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    any blood vessel, particularly lethal examples include aneurysms of the circle of Willis in the brain, aortic aneurysms affecting the thoracic aorta, and...
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    Posterior communicating artery (category Arteries of the head and neck)
    communicating arteries are small: 471  arteries at the base of the brain that form part of the circle of Willis. Anteriorly, it unites with the internal carotid...
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    Anterior communicating artery (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918))
    artery. It is part of the cerebral arterial circle, also known as the circle of Willis. Anatomical variations of the anterior communicating artery are relatively...
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    Stroke (redirect from Symptoms of stroke)
    the circle of Willis and, to a lesser extent, the major arteries supplying the cerebral hemispheres. However, variations in the circle of Willis, caliber...
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  • vascular redundancy (analogous to engineered redundancy), as in the circle of Willis in the brain, or it may occur via new branches formed between adjacent...
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    associated with different areas of the brain. The circle of Willis was named after his investigations into the blood supply of the brain, and he was the first...
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    part of the circle of Willis, which provides backup circulation to the brain. In case one of the supply arteries is occluded, the circle of Willis provides...
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    poorly received. Willis retired from acting in 2022 due to aphasia. He was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia in 2023. As a singer, Willis released his...
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    always the result of hereditary weaknesses in blood vessels and typically occur within the arteries of the circle of Willis, in order of frequency affecting...
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    form a circle (known as the circle of Willis).[citation needed] Normally, blood flows from the aorta into the subclavian artery, and then some of that blood...
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    Middle cerebral artery (category Anatomy NAV infobox with use of other NAV parameters)
    a part of the Circle of Willis. The middle cerebral artery divides into four segments, named by the region they supply as opposed to order of branching...
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    Anterior cerebral artery (category Anatomy NAV infobox with use of other NAV parameters)
    cerebral arteries arise from the internal carotid artery and are part of the circle of Willis. The left and right anterior cerebral arteries are connected by...
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    group of techniques based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to image blood vessels. Magnetic resonance angiography is used to generate images of arteries...
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    circle of Willis cerebral arteries, which if they rupture, can cause a subarachnoid hemorrhage. Diagnosis may be suspected from one, some, or all of the...
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    Suboccipital triangle (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918))
    here in order to conduct angiography of the circle of Willis. Presently, formal angiography of the circle of Willis is performed via catheter angiography...
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    PSV averaged 76 cm/sec and EDV 18 cm/sec. Circle of Willis Diagram of the arterial circulation at the base of the brain (inferior view). Carotid endarterectomy...
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    carotids, vertebral and the circle of Willis. The latter can affect smaller vessels, such as the branches of the circle of Willis.[citation needed] Myocardial...
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    A 2014 collection of her essays, The Essential Ellen Willis, received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. Willis was born in Manhattan...
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    which feeds into the Circle of Willis and provides blood supply to the brainstem and cerebellum. The basilar pons has this kind of appearance due to the...
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    by the pia mater. Thomas Willis (noted as the discoverer of the circle of Willis) made note of the fact that the consistency of CSF is altered in meningitis...
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  • The anterior choroidal artery is in the brain, off of the internal carotid in the "circle of Willis".[citation needed] Dorlands Medical Dictionary v t...
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    weakness in the wall of one of the arteries in the brain that becomes enlarged. They tend to be located in the circle of Willis and its branches. While...
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    Clivus (anatomy) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918))
    fossa above the foramen lacerum), proximal to its anastomosis with the Circle of Willis. It is anterior to the basilar artery. On sagittal plane, it can be...
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  • the Police Forces Posterior communicating artery, a pair of blood vessels in the circle of Willis Principal coordinates analysis (or classical multidimensional...
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    arteries to pass through on their way to the foramen magnum to end in the circle of Willis. These are the smallest, lightest vertebrae and the vertebral foramina...
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